Step into the world of The Briton and the Dane: Concordia in
this cinematic excerpt. Experience the suspense, emotion, and historical drama
as danger lurks in the shadows and courage is tested under cover of darkness.
From whispered secrets to the clash of destiny, the stakes
couldn’t be higher. This cinematic excerpt offers just a glimpse of the
adventure that awaits within the pages of the novel.
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Travel back in time to late ninth-century Anglo-Saxon
Britain, where Alfred the Great rules with a benevolent hand while the Danish
King rules peacefully within the boundaries of the Danelaw. Trade flourishes,
and scholars from throughout the civilized world flock to Britannia's shores to
study at the King's Court School at Winchester.
Enter Concordia, a beautiful noblewoman whose family is
favored by the king. Vain, willful, and admired but ambitious and cunning,
Concordia is not willing to accept her fate. She is betrothed to the valiant
warrior Brantson but sees herself as far too young to lie in the bedchamber of
an older suitor. She wants to see the wonders of the world, embracing
everything in it - preferably, but dangerously, at the side of Thayer, the
exotic Saracen who charms King Alfred's court and ignites her yearning
passions.
Concordia manipulates her besotted husband into taking her
to Rome, but her ship is captured by bloodthirsty pirates, and the seafarers
protecting her are ruthlessly slain to a man. As she awaits her fate in the
Moorish captain's bed, by sheer chance she discovers that salvation is at hand
in the gilded court of a Saracen nobleman.
While awaiting rescue, Concordia finds herself at the center
of intrigue, plots, blackmail, betrayal, and the vain desires of two
egotistical brothers, each willing to die for her favor. Using only feminine
cunning, Concordia must defend her honor while plotting her escape as she
awaits deliverance somewhere inside steamy, unconquered Muslim Hispania.
